... I can see the knuckles on my left hand...
[grin] Well, it's been so swollen just recently they kind of disappeared. A weekend of not doing very much has eased it significantly - problem is, I can't keep not using the hand...
This was quite amusing, if not wholly accurate...
You're an agitator! Your kids have grown up on the
front lines of rallies and pickets, and chances
are that you boycott at least one company for
its bad business practices. Your kids are
learning what matters to you and how they can
change what matters to them.
What kind of a freaky mother are you?
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Read a few more manga over the weekend: it's amazing how varied they can be in subject and style.
Samurai Deeper Kyo is nicely drawn, but the story less than gripping for me (demon and human medicine 'peddler' sharing a body, demon surfaces when human gets angry, human is accompanied by pretty female bounty hunter who wants the bounty on the demon...).
Scryed is something of a mess visually, what could be a reasonable story (seismic phenomenon that created the isolated Lost Ground also sparked a human mutation allowing its possessors to alter reality) spoiled by graphics that make the story hard to follow.
Immortal Rain (read from right to left, top to bottom: ->), however is most intriguing. Rain Jewlitt (the pretty one with the earrings) is truly immortal, he can't die, can't be killed. He's currently 624 years old - and those who know about him (including a girl who wants to transplant the head of her dead king onto his body in order to return the king to life - sound familiar?) are trying to catch him to find the secret of his immortality in any way they can, regardless of what that does to him.
It's a
miserable life, and filled with pain, not just because his body can't be permanently damaged (temporarily yes, but he eventually heals from the most terrible damage) but because of the appalling loneliness: everyone dies eventually, except for him. It's a refreshing contrast, after reading/watching so much where the search for immortality is all-consuming, to see the other side of the equation. After all, those who want immortality rarely consider the consequences.
Thought-provoking, poignant, funny in places (faint echoes of Vash, too, another immortal who's suffered at the hands of mortals), pretty, restrained artwork... Another one added to the list to collect.
(That little creature in the top left panel is a three-eyed cabbit - cross between a cat and a rabbit for those who've never seen Tenshi Muyo. It's incredibly cute.)
... I've just watched
That's So Last Week, sort of by accident - I'd only planned to have it on in the background while I caught up with emails, but ended up chortling all the way through. It's
deliciously funny, wonderfully bitchy, and quite addictive. Well worth watching if you have Channel 5.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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